Manchester man mocks ISIS rout with Ariana Grande hit

A Manchester actor, who joined volunteers fighting Islamic State, has played an Ariana Grande song in Raqqa as payback for the terrorist attack on the English city.

Michael Enright, who swapped a Hollywood career to fight with a Kurdish militia unit in Iraq, was filmed making the symbolic gesture in Raqqa's infamous central square.

It was the location where Islamic State followers carried out grisly punishments and public executions.

Video shows Enright brandishing an assault rifle to the camera in the liberated Iraqi city as Grande's 'Bang Bang' thumps out from his phone, reports the Manchester Evening News.

In an interview with a Kurdish news outlet on Saturday, Enright declared: “Because I am from Manchester and they came to my city - they came to my city - and they tried to shut up Ariana Grande, that she would be the first one to sing."

“They didn't shut her up and they didn't shut Manchester up. She's singing Bang Bang and you know what happened, we came and we did bang bang and you [Isil] left, you ran away.

“And so light is coming back here now, freedom is coming back here now and singing is coming back here. And Ariana, it's your first concert here.”